BILL NUMBER: AB 94	CHAPTERED  09/11/00

	CHAPTER   370
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 11, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 8, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 29, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 18, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 8, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cedillo
   (Coauthors:  Senators Hayden and Hughes)

                        DECEMBER 10, 1998

   An act relating to the California State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 94, Cedillo.  California State University:  performing arts
center.
   Existing law establishes the California State University under the
administration of the Trustees of the California State University,
and authorizes the university to provide instruction at 25
institutions, including California State University, Los Angeles.
   This bill would make findings and declarations concerning a
performing arts center at a prescribed location in Los Angeles.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The California State University at Los Angeles and the Los
Angeles County High School for the Arts have long sought a theater in
which to perform the approximately 200 dramatic, music, and dance
events produced each year by the 20,000 students at their campuses.
Both schools are recognized for their extensive and impressive
performing arts programs, and they have received many awards for
their productions.  However, they do not have an adequate facility
for their performances, forcing administrators to seek temporary
venues in distant communities.
   (b) A performing arts center would bring hundreds of students,
their families, and other theater patrons to downtown Los Angeles
several evenings each week.  The two schools would benefit from
having a visible and important downtown location for their performing
arts events, and the city would benefit from the new life brought by
the students' activities.
   (c) The establishment of a performing arts center in the former
cathedral is supported by a wide array of civic and governmental
bodies, including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles
Conservancy, California State University, the office of the Mayor of
the City of Los Angeles, the City Council of the City of Los Angeles,
the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Little Tokyo Service
Center, and others.
   (d) The former St. Vibiana's Cathedral is a major cultural
landmark of downtown Los Angeles, being the first cathedral built in
California south of San Francisco.  The cathedral served for 120
years as the seat of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and its history
is closely intertwined with City of Los Angeles and the religious
heritage of southern California.
   (e) The cathedral building is listed on the National Register of
Historic Places, and it occupies a crucial location in downtown Los
Angeles, one and one-half blocks from City Hall, that links the civic
center with the reviving historic core and the Little Tokyo
district.
   (f) The legacy of the cathedral is now threatened, and its
important role in the city's life could be lost to future
generations.  The structure was closed in 1994 after suffering damage
from the Northridge earthquake, and the archdiocese is now
constructing a new cathedral, Our Lady of the Angels, at another
downtown site.
   (g) Downtown Los Angeles would benefit economically and socially
from the revitilization and reuse of the cathedral.  The reuse would
further invigorate the historic core of the city, bring street life
back to the surrounding neighborhood, and ensure that the heritage of
the cathedral is preserved.
   (h) The Los Angeles Restoration Foundation is seeking to restore
the former St. Vibiana's Cathedral, in partnership with public
agencies and the private sector, and adapt the building for reuse as
a performing arts center.  When work is completed the foundation will
offer the center to the two schools as a permanent home for their
performing arts programs.
   (i) The Los Angeles Restoration Foundation is working to secure
funding for the performing arts center from private sources as well
as from the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and other
public agencies.
   (j) Provision 21 of Schedule (a) of Item 6610-001-0001 of Section
2.00 of the Budget Act of 2000 (Chapter 52 of the Statutes of 2000)
provides four million dollars ($4,000,000) in one-time funds to be
used to fund the California State University Los Angeles Performing
Arts Center.
